We test whether intellectual property rights foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations for a …

This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and … provide a rather complete picture of the innovation activities of Italian firms, in terms of patents and trademarks, and we … addition, and to our knowledge novel, we propose a measure of concordance (or proximity) between the patents and trademarks …

yield lower rates of innovation, lower product quality and lower consumers' welfare. -- Patents ; appropriability of … differentiation and component innovation. We show that, as the complexity of the product spaces increases, stronger patent regimes … innovation ; complex product industries ; industrial dynamics …

higher innovative performance for firms that do not in-license. Furthermore, the effects of fragmentation on innovation also …

&D Collaboration ; Knowledge Exchange ; Patents ; Innovation ; Count Data Models … patenting, our results further suggest that knowledge creation alliances lead to patents that are filed to protect valuable …

Innovation is commercialization of technology. Imperfections in markets for technology should leave marks on physical … investments for innovation. Two types of transaction costs could affect innovative investments: royality stacking and hold … ownership fragmentation on investments related to innovation for firms with small patent portfolios. Hold-up threats are …

industries, and patents can distort resources away from industries where they are most productive. -- innovation ; patent policy … of patents has been largely ignored. Second, we explore how the general-equilibrium framework contributes to the results … of the patent-design literature. In a general-equilibrium model, both incentives to innovate and monopoly distortions …

China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …

Classical patent literature assumes that patents grant well-defined legal rights to exclude others from practicing an … and the certification effect of patents which signals the ventures’ “quality” to investors. If the decision about patent … start-up companies are reluctant to launch new products if patents are pending. Further, pending patents attract risk …

We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team … is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation … is weak. We also connect collaborative patents to the ethnic composition of the firm's U.S. inventors and cross …